Paulina Kolata

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
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Paulina Kolata is an interdisciplinary scholar of religion in Japan, specifically Buddhism, with an interest in demographic transformations, materiality, religious economies, and ecologies of religious practice. Her other research interests include food, gender, and heritage-making. She works ethnographically with creative methodologies including film, photography, audio, and collaborative research practices.